![]() ![]() In 1969, by the time she was 37 years old, on January 20th, Richard M. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. In 1952, when she was 20 years old, on July 2, Dr. ![]() ![]() Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. Twelve nations originally signed the North Atlantic Treaty - the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. In 1949, by the time she was 17 years old, on April 4th, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours. In 1932, in the year that Barbara Chapman was born, five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Barbara's lifetime. ![]()
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